(2550) Houssay

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( 2550 ) Houssay is an asteroid of the outer main belt, which was on 21 October 1976 discovered at El Leoncito Observatory, which is located at the Felix Aguilar Observatory (IAU code 808) in the Argentine National Park El Leoncito. The observatory was used as an outpost for the Yale University and Columbia University to observe the southern sky, and since 1990 Observatorio Carlos Cesco means. Unconfirmed sightings of the asteroid, there had been in 1970 under the provisional designations 1970 and 1970, QT RV at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj.

( 2550 ) Houssay was named on 18 September 1986 after the Argentine physiologist Bernardo Alberto Houssay ( 1887-1971 ), the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded, "for his discovery of the importance of the anterior pituitary lobe hormones for the metabolism of sugar ." In the same year was honored with the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the couple Gerty and Carl Ferdinand Cori, according to which in 2000 the asteroid main belt of the outer ( 6175 ) Cori was named. Was also named after Bernardo Alberto Houssay on 22 January 2009, a lunar crater in the northern hemisphere moon: moon craters Houssay.